Russell Crowe posts video of ‘UFO': I wanted to capture fruit bats – this was a big surprise

Russell Crowe has posted a video on YouTube, suggesting he has caught a UFO on camera (Picture: Getty)

Forget NASA. Russell Crowe reckons he can confirm the presence of extra-terrestrial life in our planet’s skies after spotting a beaming orange light from his own Aussie backyard.

The gruff Oscar winner was scoffed at by sceptics when he tweeted out a 23-second video of the orange flash in the sky, recorded from his office window near his Woolloomooloo home in Sydney.

The mysterious light could be seen shifting across the city’s Royal Botanic Gardens, casting down an orange spotlight on the ground as it moved.

The 48-year-old tweeted: ‘A friend and i (sic) set camera to capture fruit bats rising from Botanic Gardens, this was a big surprise.’

‘Canon 5D, No Flash, can’t be a lense flare because it moves, camera is fixed,’ he added.

The actor claims the video has not been tampered with (Picture: YouTube)

One user wrote: ‘Just an insect or some such reflecting the light on the other side of the trees into your time lapse camera.’

Another scoffed: ‘Come on RC. It could have been more believable without all the editing. Just raw footage would have made it viral. Anyways, loved you in Les Mis.’

But Russ hit back: ‘I will grant you at the time the music wasn’t playing, also, yes, we have pushed in on the frame..this is 3 photo’s in order, nothing added.’

Other more loyal fans rushed to his defence. One tweeted: ‘Without imagination mankind would not have evolved.

‘If it makes Russell happy, let him believe it is a UFO and not some light interference. Be kind people, be kind.’

Russ is not the only celeb to crow about aliens.

Robbie Williams will happily back up his findings.

‘Seriously, I want to go out and investigate these things. I’m stopping being a pop star and being a full-time ufologist,’ the singer has said in the past after spotting an unidentified object from his sun lounger at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The 39-year-old singer said at the time it was ‘about 300 foot above me, there was this square thing which just passed over my head silently and then shot off.’